The decline in attacks coincided with the adoption of the PATRIOT Act and a number of other widespread post-9/11 law enforcement policies.
“To those who have studied radical movements, the unprecedented prosecution of environmental activists represents the end of an era,” Vanessa Grigoriadis wrote in Rolling Stone in 2006. “Four states have already passed legislation—drafted by a right-wing lobbying group that represents 300 major corporations—that classifies any act of property destruction motivated by environmental beliefs as ‘ecological terrorism.’”
When Grigoriadis wrote that, FBI had recently called radical environmental activists “the number one domestic terrorism threat,” despite the fact that damage was suffered by property, and human casualties were rare. (That description has since been downgraded to “one of the most serious domestic terrorism threats in the U.S. today.”)
Yep going to say this. There was a massive crackdown on environmentalists. I wish at least one of the many leftist podcasts I listen to would do a dive on it. I'd like to know more specifics. Apparently people were being murdered and everything. Right during the time when all the climate change discourse was growing.
The same thing is going to happen (or rather, is happening) to BLM activists. Lots of new laws aimed at stopping "rioters" in reaction to the chuds storming the capitol will be used to target leftists and minority activists.
FBI had recently called radical environmental activists “the number one domestic terrorism threat,” despite the fact that damage was suffered by property, and human casualties were rare.
At least government agencies and the police are ideologically consistent in placing property over life, judging by the regards with which BLM was (and continues to be) held in. Fucking pigs.
"The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar!"
-K. Marx, 1871. 150 years on, not much has changed.
Yep going to say this. There was a massive crackdown on environmentalists. I wish at least one of the many leftist podcasts I listen to would do a dive on it. I'd like to know more specifics. Apparently people were being murdered and everything. Right during the time when all the climate change discourse was growing.
The same thing is going to happen (or rather, is happening) to BLM activists. Lots of new laws aimed at stopping "rioters" in reaction to the chuds storming the capitol will be used to target leftists and minority activists.
At least government agencies and the police are ideologically consistent in placing property over life, judging by the regards with which BLM was (and continues to be) held in. Fucking pigs.
"The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar!"
-K. Marx, 1871. 150 years on, not much has changed.